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Original Brown Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1989. xxxvi, 196pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Foxing to top edge, Light foxing to endpapers, otherwise the contents are clean with no inscriptions. The unclipped dust jacket has been covered in clear adhesive plastic. "The Corpous Apocryphum Hiberniae is organised by a number of distinguished specialists, including Father Martin McNamara, MSC. Some of the Apocrypha are preserved only in Old Irish. To focus research on the Apocrypha Hiberniae is to bring into view the milieu of Old Ireland, its links with the Holy Land, and the complex and creative traditions that enlivened the earliest Christians who endeavoured to imagine the lives of Jesus, his family, and his earliest followers. Most of this information has only recently become more widely known, making this work a fascinating and invaluable resource.".…